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How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Francois Fenelon
Humility, Soul, Quiet

Alas! how many souls there are full of self, and yet desirous of doing good and serving God, but in such a way as to suit themselves; who desire to impose rules upon God as to His manner of drawing them to Himself. They want to serve and possess Him, but they are not willing to be possessed by Him.

Francois Fenelon
Self, Drawing, Soul

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.

Francois Fenelon
Soul, Doe, Restlessness

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

Francois Fenelon
Views, Anxiety, Soul

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

Francois Fenelon
Order, Soul, May

O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.

Francois Fenelon
Writing, Soul, Suffering
Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.98, Lulu.com

The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.

Francois Fenelon
Giving, Soul, Calm
Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.108, Lulu.com

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Francois Fenelon
Friendship, Soul, Bears

If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacr Here it is that the Spirit teaches us all truth; for all truth is eminently contained in this sacrifice of love, where the soul strips itself of every thing to present it to God.

Francois Fenelon
Sacrifice, Soul, Spirit

God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

Francois Fenelon
Christian, Grace, Soul

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